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There are 1007 Web 2.0 sites/services/links in 50 categories. Pick a category.

Raised by parents who stressed individualism and informality, these young people grew up in a society that is more open and offers more choices than in their parents' youth, says child and adolescent psychologist Dave Verhaagen of Charlotte. Unlike their parents, they have never known anything but a world dominated by technology. Even their social lives revolve around the Web, iPods and cellphones. So they dress down, talk loose and reveal their innermost thoughts online. "Put that all together and you've got a generation that doesn't have the same concept of privacy and personal boundaries as generations before," Verhaagen says.

I'd like to end things with a roll-up of all this year's Web 2.0 discussions and explanation. I know that many people are still struggling with what Web 2.0 means, are often confused by thinking it's purely a marketing term, or if you're like most folks, you haven't really heard about it yet. To those, I think this list will definitely help. And it's a good refresher for all of us Web 2.0 followers as well.

The irrational exuberance of the dotcom boom was no more eloquently summed up than during the US Super Bowl in late January 2000 when more than a dozen internet firms spent millions of dollars buying 30-second advertising slots.

On the fifth anniversary of the dotcom collapse, Chris Alden reflects on the hysteria and hubris that fuelled the boom

As elections near, some candidates are elbowing for room on social networks. They should proceed with caution

The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

Rules for creating a readable blog

Blog about traditional media vs. the new web

New relationships between companies and clients.

ad companies using youtube

worried ad man moans about perceived threat to his job

The companies that burned through the most VC money to the least effect

flickr market share is actually tiny

artists hyped using myspace

As Alan McGee books a made-up band, Dave Simpson looks at the science of creating a buzz

What were we thinking? And how can we avoid thinking like that again?

1969: Arpanet, US-backed forerunner of the internet, goes live. 1973: Two US researchers devise protocol, to allow development of single-network Arpanet into multi-network internet. 1980: Tim Berners-Lee, at particle research station Cern, devises rules to start world wide web, and allow easy travel around the internet. ...

On 10 March 2000 the Nasdaq index of leading technology shares spiked, burst the dotcom bubble and sent entrepreneurial dreams crashing back to earth.

The "dot-com bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1997–2001 in which stock markets in Western nations saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new Internet sector and related fields.

Hundreds of mashups with new updates daily

"Web 2.0 Design in a nutshell." Good article about current trends

We all know the plushy, rounded, pastel-coloured faces of Web 2.0. MySpace. Digg. Flickr. The achingly trendy Silicon Valley startups that are selling for millions to big media conglomerates and making their founders into stars. Tom Anderson. Kevin Rose. These are the pinups of the Web 2.0 generation - but little do they know the monster they've created.

Five years after the crash the economic fallout has been limited but there are fears of fresh bubbles in property, oil and commodities

What Tom and many others discovered to their cost was a fundamental flaw in the Web 2.0 era: a complete disregard for accountability to their users among service providers.